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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
the attention of consumers on the go, fresh bread fans, and people looking for a place to relax with a cup of coffee in the afternoon. Expected to top $1 billion in sales this year, the publicly held Panera has also satisfied the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
improve challenging last-mile distribution on rough terrain. Even before doing any marketing for the Mobius II, Yong reports that they have a couple hundred preorders and are building a sales and service network across the country to... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
as CEO and president of Palm Computing and a decade as a marketing and logistics executive at Apple and its spin-off Claris, Dubinsky cofounded Handspring. As the company’s CEO, she oversees development, production, and marketing of the Visor, a popular PDA that is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
Coup says. “Timberland’s on two orders of magnitude larger than us in terms of people, in terms of sales, in terms of complexity of operations, and in terms of the number of countries it operates in.” But size has its advantages. As a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Bringing Up Baby
employees; McCartney does not reveal sales figures for the company, but with "e-tailing" these days looking as challenging as child-rearing, she'll be calling on all her formidable skills to help her start-up grow strong and healthy. View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
School. And I guess I was in the wrong place. Bruce Lockenhauer, 1987, section F. My first job out of college was being a sales rep for IBM, and they taught me a lot. I came in as an Econ major. They taught me about business. The most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
season also looks strong, with record-breaking ticket sales for The Nutcracker on the books and Swan Lake still to come. “In the box office, we heard people on the phone shouting to their friend, ‘We pay that for Celtics tickets, we can... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop by Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) (Portfolio) The founders of Gilt Groupe reveal how they built the web’s most famous fusion of high tech and high fashion. Sample View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
expertise in technology was helpful because I didn't have preconceived notions of how things should be done.” Lee transformed a struggling software sales company into a global provider of IT products and services. Under her leadership,... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Giving Back to Help The Next Generation
game-changer for me,” says Sergio. “That was critical in my decision to pursue an MBA at HBS.” The former engineering major from Chicago left her operations job at GE to attend HBS. Sergio explains that the Michael J. and Mary C. Johnston... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Eden of 75-degree temperatures, where you can breakfast on fresh guavas and relax into a way of life that values family and friendship over keeping up with the Joneses. Such was the path chosen by Richard Evanson (MBA '62), owner and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
day one of the takeover, we had a lot more debt than we anticipated. Then there was the October '87 stock market crash, which really hurt our asset sale program in Australia. So by the end of '87, we had in Australian dollars, about $1.5... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
The second 90 percent that we are ignoring is the true cost of operating our buildings: the people inside. Most companies spend as much as 90 percent of their budgets on human resources, a figure largely driven by their salaries and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
are first to sense and capture new knowledge all over the world; they mobilize this globally dispersed knowledge to become more innovative than their competitors; and they turn this innovation into value by effectively managing operations... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Tina Turner, Paul Simon, and John Legend made headlines for catalog sales in 2021, a year that was noteworthy both for the volume of deals and their valuations. When Sony Music Entertainment bought Bruce... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
bringing it back to profitability in 100 days. His next stop was Burger King, where he helped relaunch the brand and turnaround same store sales. Lopdrup first joined Red Lobster as president in 2004, and led a company that was facing slowing View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
advantage." Speed has also characterized Juliber's ascent up the corporate ladder. After helping to double sales and triple profits for CP's Asian operations in only three years, she was named chief... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
Objectives in Unpredictable Times studiously avoids a discussion of what the authors call “the S-word” — strategy. Instead, the book offers “a no-excuses, in-the-trenches perspective” that lets managers take existing realities and View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
She raised $300,000 from family and friends, making full use of the HBS network and tapping into angel investing groups, since raising about $1.5 million more. With annual sales well beyond the $1 million mark, Endline notes that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing